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is, many of the honey consumers are not 

 receiving what they pay for. The 

 remedy is, stamp the weight on each 

 section, or give an honest pound ! I 

 think the "Novice wide frame" has the 

 credit, or blame, for the 4^x4}^ section. 



Honey is not ripened quickly in thick 

 combs. The size of section ought to be 

 such that there should be no waste 

 space in the supers, and not discard the 

 supers on- hand. A section 6x4^x1% 

 inches holds one pound, using separa- 

 tors. It fits the Langstroth supers with 

 only % inch at the end to wedge, and 

 fits the 8-frame supers lengthwise or 

 crosswise. It is too late to change this 

 season, but not too late to get at our 

 best interests. C. E. Mead. 



Chicago, Ills., July 4, 1892. 



No Honey and No Swarms. 



The honey crop in this section is a 

 complete failure so far. There has been 

 no honey and no swarms. The basswood 

 and sourwood is just commencing to 

 bloom, but no prospect of any honey 

 from that source that I can see: This 

 ends our honey season until the fall flow. 

 T. K. Massie. 



Concord Church, W.Va., July 9,1892. 



Putting on the Sections. 



I have 16 colonies of bees all doing 

 well except one, and that has been 

 dying. The young bees hatch out and 

 crawl out at the entrance and die ; 

 sometimes there would be a double hand- 

 ful in one night. They had sealed 

 honey ; the queen is all right, and has a 

 nice lot of brood. The bees look all 

 right. 



We have had two weeks of find 

 weather, and the bees have been storing 

 from white clover and Alsike. We are 

 putting on sections now. The swarming 

 season is about over here. 



The Bee Journal, is a welcome vis- 

 itor at our house. I could not do with- 

 out it, for the small sum of one dollar a 

 year. John Otly. 



Haynie, Wash., July 2, 1892. 



A "Woman's Good Report. 



I notice on page 53 that Mr. N. W. 

 Shultz thinks that 61 pounds per colony 

 is a big yield, and intimates that the 

 hive used had much to do with it. My 

 hives are of the Bay State pattern, 

 which has closed-cud frames. Last sea- 

 son my one colony gave me 2 swarms, 



and I got 40 one-pound sections of 

 honey. This spring found one colony 

 queenless. I have used it and one col- 

 ony with a queen for increase by divi- 

 sion. The one with a queen stored 20 

 one-pound sections full of snow-white 

 honey before I had queens ready for my 

 nucleus colonies. My third colony has 

 not swarmed this season, and I have 

 taken off 32 one-pound sections full, 

 and there are 48 more nearly ready to 

 come off the hive. I expect they will fill 

 a few sections more this fall. My bees 

 are Carniolans, and I am only a beginner 

 in apiculture, and have made lots of 

 mistakes. The Bee Journal is a wel- 

 come visitor. Mrs. O. G. Howe. 

 Tilton, N. H., July 11, 1892. 



Excellent Yield Expected. 



Bees have done splendidly since July 

 4. White clover is abundant, and 

 should the weather not get too hot, we 

 will have an excellent yield of honey 

 this season. My bees wintered well — I 

 did not lose a colony. They are all in 

 good working condition now, but have 

 not swarmed much this season. 



C. Zoll. 



Vermont, Ills'., July 13, 1892. 



White Clover in Abundance. 



The spring here in northern Iowa was 

 very late. I took my bees out on April 

 10, and there was not an average of 

 more -than one day a week that bees 

 could get out in several weeks — either 

 cold, windy, or rainy ; but the many 

 heavy showers and long rains have 

 brought on the clover in great abun- 

 dance, that had been set back by drouths 

 in the five former years, and I hear that 

 Mr. Bird, our pioneer bee-keeper that 

 has had a large apiary for 20 years 

 here at Bradford, says that he never 

 knew such a clover harvest as we are 

 having now ; so I think such men who 

 never rob their bees of winter stores, 

 and have good ventilated cellars or 

 chaff hives, must have a good crop, as 

 basswood is yet to follow. 



Mrs. F. A. Dayton. 



Bradford, Iowa, July 11, 1892. 



The Globe Bee-Veil, which we offer 

 on the third page of this number of the 

 Bee Journal, is just the thing. You 

 can get it for sending us only three new 

 subscribers, with $3.00. 



